Success Academy Attrition Worse Than Ever - Gary Rubinstein
On April 5th The New York Post published their annual ‘100% of Success Academy students get accepted into four-year colleges’ editorial. The class of 2023 will be the sixth graduating class of the infamous charter chain and according to the first paragraph of the editorial, Success Academy has accomplished this feat six years in a row.
I’ve been fact checking claims like this for about 12 years now and if you follow me at all you know that of course the 100% four year college admission statistic is a lie, but you will want to know how much of a lie it is this time. Looking at the year to year attrition, the thing that always jumps out at me is how almost half the students who are in 9th grade will graduate on time four years later. For this years analysis I found one of the most bizarre examples of short term attrition I think I have ever seen.- Continue reading
Saturday, April 15, 2023
The mainstream media repeats the lie of long waiting lists for charter schools and the public believes it and the argument is used to expand charters. For many years I have been challenging charters like Success Academy to show us their lists. AQE has a list of its own showing the drops in enrollment of charters in NYC.
And Gary Rubinstein's latest exposes the lie about Success having 100% of its grads being accepted to 4 year colleges - after they made much of the cohort disappear.
By the way, the UFT needs to do a better job of opposing charters than calling for more transparency. They should be taking out TV ads with the info from Gary and AQE.
Here is the AQE bulletin:
Please send a letter to the governor using this tool from AQE. No more money for charter schools in the NYS budget!
Budget negotiations are dragging into another week, and Governor Hochul is planning to push hard in the coming days for her proposal to reauthorize “zombie charters” — charter schools that failed and closed — in an effort to allow new charter schools to open.
Email Governor Hochul and your State Legislators now and tell them: Don’t raise the cap, and don’t reauthorize zombie charters in the final budget.Make no mistake: Hochul’s zombie charter proposal is no compromise. Either of her proposals to expand charter schools — reauthorizing zombies, or lifting the regional cap — would mean more new charter schools opening in New York. And the fact is that New York doesn’t need more charter schools, period.
While they have been busy lobbying in Albany for expansion, New York City’s charter schools have eliminated 7,500 spots for students — including some of the biggest chains and worst offenders when it comes to transparency and accountability, like Success Academy. Clearly, there are already plenty of seats in charters going unfilled.
So why is Governor Hochul fighting for more charters to open at all — either by lifting the regional cap or reauthorizing “zombie” charters that failed and closed — when there aren’t enough students to fill the seats that already exist?
If data were driving public policy, we would not be talking about charter schools right now. It is only on Governor Hochul’s budget agenda because of the influence of her billionaire donors, who have their own interests and profits at stake in the charter fight.
In solidarity,
Jasmine Gripper
72% of increase in state foundation aid to NYC public schools since 2017-18 diverted to charter schools
Shocking! Since 2017-18, NYS Foundation Aid to NYC public schools increased by $1.5B --meant to provide public school students w/ a sound basic education. But 72% of amount or $1.1B went to increased charter school payments (not even counting rent).
See https://www.nysut.org/news/
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